“The New Spiritualities, East and West: Colonial Legacies and the Global Spiritual Marketplace in Southeast Asia

• Main Author: Howell, Julia
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2009
• Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified; Griffith; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/36312

Scholars who recognise an increasingly common distinction between 'religion' and 'spirituality' in Western popular usage have suggested that the new spiritualities, framed in contrast to 'religion', are largely confined to North Atlantic and Australasian societies. This...